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2 unusual facts about cutlery


Antrim, New Hampshire

Cutlery was the big industry in this small town, beginning with the manufacturing of apple-paring machines in 1864.

Leah's Yard

By 1905, the workshops around the courtyard of Leah’s Yard were occupied by eighteen Little mesters whose trades included dram flask manufacturer, hollow ware and silver buffers, palette knife makers, steel fork manufacturer, silver ferrule maker, brass and nickel silver turners, electroplate producer and a cutler.


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Curepto

It sailed from the port of Cadiz, bound the port of Callao in the Viceroyalty of Peru, loaded with huge fortunes of silver and gold pieces, stamps, fine cutlery, glassware manufactured by the "Granja de San Ildefonso", and luxurious furniture decorated with gold, costume seeds and precious fabrics.

Japanese cutlery

Seki, Gifu is today considered the home of modern Japanese kitchen cutlery, where state-of-the-art manufacturing and technology has updated ancient forging skills to produce a world-class series of stainless and laminated steel kitchen knives famed throughout the world.

Llamatron

These enemies, referred to in the game as grunts, take a variety of forms, ranging from boxes of Rizla cigarette papers to the Eye of Providence, taking in cans of Coca-Cola, hamburgers and cutlery along the way.

Margaret Howell

(Japan Hose Book) Anglepoise lamps, Robert Welch cutlery, and furniture by Ernest Race and Ercol complement the clothes, as do occasional exhibitions featuring, among others, the work of architect John Penn and the graphic art of H A Rothholz and the 1950s St Ives group of artists.

Meatless Flyday

An overconfident and guffawing spider (voiced by Cy Kendall) spots his intended prey, a mute fly, on the ceiling, and indulges in various cat-and-mouse schemes to try to catch him for food, including painting a load of buckshot with "Kandy Kolor" and luring the fly to eat it and drawing him closer with a magnet, which only succeeds in attracting a set of metal cutlery which the spider has to dodge to save himself.

Prosper Marilhat

Although his parents wanted him to work in the cutlery business of Thiers where he lived, the Baron de Barante convinced them he was more suited to an artistic career.

Thomas Boulsover

Thomas Boulsover (1705 – 9 September 1788), Sheffield cutler and the inventor of Sheffield Plate, was born in what is now the Ecclesfield district of the city and died at his home at Whiteley Wood Hall, on the River Porter.

Tom Hendrie

In 1981, Hendrie appeared with his then wife on the ITV game show 3-2-1, reaching the final round and winning a canteen of cutlery and china dinner service.

Tom O'Dell

Clips have also been featured from broadcasts of Cutlery Corner on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.


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